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Human Pincushion
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When characters, particularly tough guys and girls, get large amounts of projectiles or weapons stuck in their body. They continue on fighting with the blades and shafts eerily poking out of them at odd angles. Essentially, these become a new fashion accessory that testify to their exceptional prowess and stamina, and they do very little to actually slow down the lumbering war machine. In fact, the character in question may actually enjoy this situation. To take this even further, the impaled characters can pull the weapons out of their bodies and use them to fight back. Alternatively, this trope can also be invoked through a character's particularly gruesome death, where the victim is pierced in a similar manner but does not quite fare as well as their seemingly-invincible counterpart. In this case, the odds and ends stuck in the victim's body underscore the brutal fate, along with adding unintentional Nausea Fuel for those with weak stomachs. Either way, having a character with multiple objects sticking out of them adds a touch of dramatic tension, while highlighting that character's badass qualities, even if they die. Note, however, that for this trope to have been truly invoked, the work must feature a character with a sufficient amount of projectiles/weapons stuck in their body, typically at least 4 or 5. Otherwise, the atmosphere created isn't quite the same. Compare Impaled with Extreme Prejudice for characters being viciously impaled by various implements, Annoying Arrows for projectiles being treated untruthfully in fiction, Only a Flesh Wound for wounds that do little to slow an attacker down, and Death by a Thousand Cuts for deaths involving a long repetition of small cuts or hits. A common example of Bows and Errors. |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Before Diana even arrived to help Artemis had filled the White Magician with arrows during their fight. The only time he even seemed to notice them was when he decided to use a pair of them to fatally stab Artemis. | |
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In the climax of the second The Witchlands book, Aeduen has over a dozen arrows stuck in him, including one going through his heart. Good thing he has a Healing Factor. | |
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In Misfile this is used as a visual gag. Ash does a fantastic job of putting on a happy expression, but when Emily confesses she's going on a date with another guy... well, check out the last panel for hisnote Don't be fooled by the body, Ash is a guy. It's a long story, but the short explanation is Gender Bender real feelings on the matter. There's only a few knives and one arrow, but you can also only see the top bit of his torso and his head, so you could look at this as either an implied example of the trope or a downplayed one. | |
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X-Men: The following characters exhibit this trope: Wolverine invokes this every so often thanks to his Healing Factor. Ranges from things like arrows to multiple swords.◊ Marrow had this as her superpower; she could grow bones out of her body, usually as outward jutting spines or claws. Spike from X-Force had the same abilities and tended to use them in a similar fashion. |
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Mistborn: The Metallic Art of Hemalurgy is based on this. It involves stabbing a Targeted Human Sacrifice with a metal spike, then impaling another being with the same spike. This anchors a piece of the sacrifice's soul to them, and will not kill the person given the spike. Hemalgury can be used to create various creatures or grant certain powers but exposes the (willing or otherwise) user to an increased risk of Mind Rape. The aptly named "Ironeyes" (once the human known as Marsh) has upwards of twenty metal spikes permanently stabbed throughout his body. By the sequel trilogy, the people of Scadrial consider him to be the mythical embodiment of Death Itself. |
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In the anime prequel Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School's Side Despair part, the OP shows Seiko "Ultimate Pharmacist" Kimura being stabbed all over◊ with syringes. It never happens, since she's stabbed in the chest◊ and placed in a Crucified Hero Shot instead. | |
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The 13th Warrior: one of the vikings gets about a half dozen spears (!) stuck in his chest and back before finally keeling over. | |
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The cause of death for Ususama Wisdom King Mayuri from Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato. Bonus for him being both hit by arrows and by a single spear, the last one keeping him on his feet. | |
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Andor: The Republic officer who shot the leader of Kassa's adultless tribe in the back is hit with a barrage of poisoned needle darts from the tribe's Blow Guns in response, taking a few more shots at the kids before the many darts in him finally take him out. | |
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Archer is seen to have died this way in a flashback.note Although Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works adaptation uses the version found in Fate/EXTRA instead, wherein he was executed by hanging. Then it happens in-game thanks to Gilgamesh, but this time he sticks around for a day after. | |
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Mount & Blade, extending to other throwing arms such as javelins and axes, as well. Anything that is both a projectile and has something that can be called a pointy end can and will lodge in both player characters and NPC troops, sharing models as they do. There's quite the upper bound on the number of arrows that can remain visibly lodged in an object,◊ though given how the game averts Annoying Arrows completely, few players will catch nearly as many in one battle without a shield or high-quality armor. | |
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Heimskringla: After the Birchlegs have lost the Battle of Re to King Magnus Erlingsson, one Birchleg survivor sneaks into the King Magnus' camp and makes an attempt at Magnus' life. He fails, "and then weapons were so thick around the Birchleg that he could hardly fall down." | |
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The Outpost: Tobin gets shot four times with arrows by an archer from the Prime Order (he's fine after just a day's bed rest). | |
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Naruto: Zabuza got a small army's worth of weapons deposited in his sides when he attacked Gatto for betraying him. Earlier, Naruto himself was impaled by dozens of needles by Haku. What's notable about this is that, unlike when the same thing happened to him and Sasuke earlier in the fight, his regeneration was kicked into overdrive and LAUNCHED the needles right back out. Sasuke got six of Killer Bee's seven swords stuck inside of him, though thanks to some Intimate Healing (and no apparent damage to vital organs) he lived. |
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Battal Gazi have the titular hero killing one of the villains, Oba, by firing a dozen arrows from a single bow nailing Oba to a tree. For good measure, Battal Gazi then sets one last arrow on fire and shoots it into Oba's crotch to finish him off. An appropriate Karmic Death, since Oba is one of the villains who gang-raped Battal Gazi's sister earlier on. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Black Mage fills his teammates with knives on a fairly regular basis - i.e., whenever they really piss him off. They're all fine in the end, though. | |
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The Night Unfurls: "Orc Pincushions" would be more like it. Hugh's debut with the Simon's Bowblade features him sitting on the edge of a well, surrounded by orc corpses riddled with arrows. Not a single orc managed to get within fifty paces of him before becoming a pincushion. | |
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On the NBC series Hannibal, one of the Chesapeake Ripper's victims was made into a Human Pincushion with the implements arranged to match the page picture. | |
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Hero (2002): The ending features this, though the result is only implied. Thankfully. | |
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In the Trigun manga those fighting Elendira usually end up like this with many massive nails impaled through their torsos. This made her potentially one of the most powerful characters in the series. Livio is victim to this several times. | |
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Happens quite often in "arrow run" levels of Happy Wheels. Here's an example. | |
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The Amazing Digital Circus: In the teaser, not only is Pomni skewered with four knives, but she’s still alive and not a single drop of blood can be seen. | |
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In Oblivion, characters can be turned into human pincushions with literally dozens of arrows sticking out of them. If their health is high enough they can keep going. If this happens to the player character, some of those arrows show up in their Player Inventory and can be equipped and fired back. | |
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In The End of Evangelion, this is the Mass Production Eva's final insult to Asuka's already-gnawed corpse. Happens because she hasn't given up and is still trying to attack them. | |
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Discworld: The first death of soon-to-be Zombie Reg Shoe during Night Watch Discworld, when the thwarted revolutionary is stuck with eight arrows but can still shout defiance at his attackers before dying. He soon recovers from this, and as a zombie proves it's impossible to kill him twice. In Jingo he confounds the Klatchians by blithely fighting on even after losing an arm, devising a new form of unarmed combat by using his severed limb as a club to hit people with. As a policeman, he concludes arrests with arrows sticking out of him, often while complaining about the holes in his armour and uniform that he will have to make good himself. | |
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Asura of Asura's Wrath is first seen in the first trailer skewered by several spears. Doesn't stop him, though. He was later seen fighting against Wyzen as this via having multiple spears sticking in his back when he was first betrayed. | |
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World of Warcraft: Enemy projectiles such as arrows and spears remain in the Player Character's body for a short amount of time after making a hit, so coming under attack from multiple ranged units can easily invoke this trope. | |
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Ayakashi Triangle: When the Gogyosen force Garaku to take their attack to shield Shadow Mei, he ends up stabbed in the back by over a half-dozen swords. This destroys his main body, but Suzu accidentally restores him from his Heart Drive. | |
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Everything wearing one of the Queen's Rings in Homestuck gets one of these. They can easily remove them for use as a weapon, and nothing in canon suggests that the impaling actually hurts them. | |
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In The Vision of Escaflowne, King Duke Freid rises from safe cover to shout defiance at the invading Zaibach army... only to get struck with dozens of bolts simultaneously, from nearly every conceivable angle. He dies immediately. | |
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Dracula on Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation gets hit with dozens of darts and arrows, venomous snakes, even an axe to the head, while protecting Ericka from a booby-trapped-riddled temple in Atlantis. | |
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Ditto in Skyrim. Thanks to Gameplay and Story Segregation, it's possible to hear a guard whine about how his adventuring career was cut short by an archery-related knee injury while you yourself have an arrow stuck in your face. Or, in case you've had a run-in with a mage, an ice shard the size of a small log shoved through your neck. | |
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Wolverine invokes this every so often thanks to his Healing Factor. Ranges from things like arrows to multiple swords.◊ | |
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In the Mission 1 cutscene of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Dante is interrupted in eating a slice of pizza by a large group of scythe-wielding Hell demons warping in around him and turning him into an inhuman "scythecushion"... up until Dante grins, walks a few steps dragging the demons still holding onto their scythes, and proceeds to kill every single one of his attackers with the scythe blades that are still stuck in him! | |
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| Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_5c622d7f | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5e1213a8 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5e1213a8 | comment |
Mr Croup in the comic version of Neverwhere. | |
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| Neverwhere | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_5e1213a8 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5e91c7d | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5e91c7d | comment |
The Iron Maidens in Resident Evil 4 have bodies bristling with spines. Their basic attacks against Leon include extending their spines to impale him, either when they get close or after grabbing him. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5e91c7d | featureApplicability |
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| Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_5e91c7d | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5f05bdc6 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5f05bdc6 | comment |
This happens three times to Teddy Bear Orion in Fate/Grand Carnival as a result of being a pervert to the girls of Chaldea, all of them at the hands of Artemis, who fills him full of arrows. | |
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| Fate/Grand Carnival | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_5f05bdc6 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5ff059fa | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5ff059fa | comment |
In The Wolverine, Logan receives plenty of Annoying Arrows from the ninjas... which, being poisoned, knock him out. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5ff059fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_5ff059fa | featureConfidence |
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| The Wolverine | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_5ff059fa | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6300d32a | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6300d32a | comment |
300: In the Bittersweet Grand Finale, where the Persian army finally overwhelms the Spartans, many of the Spartans have arrows, swords, and other weapons stuck in their bodies. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6300d32a | featureApplicability |
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| 300 | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_6300d32a | |
| Human Pincushion / int_68237790 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_68237790 | comment |
In Pathfinder, the Purrodaemon is an evil spirit of War that usually appears with a dozen blades piercing its flesh. It can safely store a small armory in this manner and grant magical enchantments to a weapon impaling it. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_68237790 | featureApplicability |
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| Human Pincushion / int_68237790 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_68237790 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6ba5c4d7 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6ba5c4d7 | comment |
Shin Mazinger Zero: In chapter two, Sayaka Yumi died when her body was impaled by several dozens of iron rods. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6ba5c4d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6ba5c4d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shin Mazinger Zero (Manga) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_6ba5c4d7 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6c1234ed | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6c1234ed | comment |
In Dwarf Fortress, items can become impaled in a character. Mostly arrows shot from a bow/crossbow. This item will then be in your inventory. So, if after a battle, a character suddenly has a bunch of arrows added to their inventory but didn't pick any up then they have just become pincushions. It's worth noting that these arrows must be pulled out of the body before they can be used, causing bleeding. There have been quite a few adventurers who have died this way. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6c1234ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_6c1234ed | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6cd3b44f | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6cd3b44f | comment |
Black Lagoon: Hansel and Gretel do this to one of Balalaika's men after kidnapping him. It is implied that they did this while he was alive, and continued after he died because they found amusement in his spinal reflex making him "twitch like a fish." | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6cd3b44f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Black Lagoon (Manga) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_6cd3b44f | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6f1d9716 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6f1d9716 | comment |
Teen Girl Squad: In issue 1, The Ugly One gets riddled with arrows by a disembodied head. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6f1d9716 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_6f1d9716 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Teen Girl Squad (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_6f1d9716 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_73383fee | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_73383fee | comment |
Takes place thrice in the animated versions of the visual novel Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: In the original game's Animated Adaptation, "Junko Enoshima's" original "Impaled with Extreme Prejudice" death becomes this trope. The spears that go through her thighs look specially painful. In the anime prequel Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School's Side Despair part, the OP shows Seiko "Ultimate Pharmacist" Kimura being stabbed all over◊ with syringes. It never happens, since she's stabbed in the chest◊ and placed in a Crucified Hero Shot instead. It happens again in Side Despair's episode 10, when the real Chiaki Nanami is first stabbed through the chest and then impaled from the ground by many other lances, as the corollary to a huge Break the Cutie process. |
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| Human Pincushion / int_73383fee | featureApplicability |
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| Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_73383fee | |
| Human Pincushion / int_755fadab | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_755fadab | comment |
Haruhi Suzumiya: iI Yuki's memorable battle with Ryoko, she is impaled by a large number of metal spikes, but doesn't seem concerned at all. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_755fadab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_755fadab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Haruhi Suzumiya | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_755fadab | |
| Human Pincushion / int_77d76e46 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_77d76e46 | comment |
Thir13en Ghosts: The Hammer, though the event of having the nails hammered into him isn't shown on-screen, only how it looks when the Main Characters are viewing the ghosts. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_77d76e46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_77d76e46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thir13en Ghosts | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_77d76e46 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7ae95673 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7ae95673 | comment |
In Savaged, Zoe shoots Creed with so many arrows that Trey describes him as being 'a human pincushion'. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7ae95673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7ae95673 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Savaged | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_7ae95673 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7be40377 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7be40377 | comment |
In one of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, it's stated that Hannibal Lecter once mutilated one of his victims to turn him into an exact copy of "The Wounded Man" (see art section). | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7be40377 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7be40377 | featureConfidence |
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| Hannibal Lecter (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_7be40377 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7fc78282 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7fc78282 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: Boromir goes out in a fashion similar to Longinus of the Sienkiewicz Trilogy while buying the hobbits time to get out of there. (The movie only shows three arrows, while the novel details many more—however, it compensates by having the arrows being fired at near-point-blank range by The Dragon of the film.) | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7fc78282 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_7fc78282 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_7fc78282 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_8960fd02 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_8960fd02 | comment |
Thors in Vinland Saga gets shot with about a dozen arrows. He then continues talking with the enemy leader and says goodbye to his men and his son, and only then falls over to die. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_8960fd02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_8960fd02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vinland Saga (Manga) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_8960fd02 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_920bdb7c | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_920bdb7c | comment |
In Kill Six Billion Demons, the angel 2 Michael appears with his corporeal shell impaled by three spears, and has a lasting dislike of humans because of it. His spiritual true form in the Void Between the Worlds manifests the same injuries, suggesting that they've become part of his identity in some way. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_920bdb7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_920bdb7c | featureConfidence |
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| Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_920bdb7c | |
| Human Pincushion / int_94688c99 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_94688c99 | comment |
The opening stage of New Legends have a cutscene where your scout reports of an impending invasion - while having dozens and dozens of arrows embedded all over him. He succumbs while passing the message. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_94688c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_94688c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| New Legends (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_94688c99 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9591f30c | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9591f30c | comment |
Time Bandits: A bunch of medieval knights with crossbows fire a glut of Annoying Arrows at Ultimate Evil. In response, he whips his red cloak around himself and turns himself into a literal pincushion. When he bounces down, he fires the arrows back at his would-be killers. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9591f30c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Time Bandits | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_9591f30c | |
| Human Pincushion / int_967347ea | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_967347ea | comment |
In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Anthy was subjected to this at the hands of an angry mob for sealing Dios away long ago, and she still has to endure the pain of constantly being skewered by the Swords of Hate as a scapegoat for humanity's rage toward the Prince who lost his faith and then abandoned his people. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_967347ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_967347ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_967347ea | |
| Human Pincushion / int_976efc02 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_976efc02 | comment |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 gives us a literal example when in one experiment Dr. Forrester dresses TV's Frank up as a giant pin cushion and shoved several giant pins into him. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
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| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_976efc02 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_992cb6e1 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_992cb6e1 | comment |
Being pincushioned with arrows (by his own men) is how Washizu dies in Throne of Blood. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_992cb6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_992cb6e1 | featureConfidence |
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| Throne of Blood | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_992cb6e1 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9a67b688 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9a67b688 | comment |
In Case Closed the Benkei example found under the Real Life section serves as a clue in one early case. Mainly that the victim died at a later time than previously thought, as the rigor mortis set in early from them having been playing an intense table tennis match and causing a buildup of lactic acid. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9a67b688 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9a67b688 | featureConfidence |
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| Case Closed (Manga) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_9a67b688 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9d34190a | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9d34190a | comment |
The Elder Scrolls In Oblivion, characters can be turned into human pincushions with literally dozens of arrows sticking out of them. If their health is high enough they can keep going. If this happens to the player character, some of those arrows show up in their Player Inventory and can be equipped and fired back. Ditto in Skyrim. Thanks to Gameplay and Story Segregation, it's possible to hear a guard whine about how his adventuring career was cut short by an archery-related knee injury while you yourself have an arrow stuck in your face. Or, in case you've had a run-in with a mage, an ice shard the size of a small log shoved through your neck. |
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| Human Pincushion / int_9d34190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9d34190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Elder Scrolls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_9d34190a | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9ebb8e6f | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9ebb8e6f | comment |
Spike from X-Force had the same abilities and tended to use them in a similar fashion. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9ebb8e6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9ebb8e6f | featureConfidence |
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| X-Force (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_9ebb8e6f | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9fc6d946 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9fc6d946 | comment |
Fire & Blood: Happens to Ser Criston Cole during the Dance of the Dragons, when he's surrounded by a superior enemy force. All attempts to talk his way out are rejected, and when he tries asking them to settle the matter with trial by champion, he's told they'll have no songs about how bravely he died, at which point Ser Pate of Longleaf signals to his archers to fill Cole full of holes. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9fc6d946 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_9fc6d946 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fire & Blood | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_9fc6d946 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_a6543322 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_a6543322 | comment |
Touhou Project: According to Fanon, this is the common fate of anyone who severely pisses off Sakuya Izayoi, the knife-throwing, time-stopping Ninja Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, with Hong Meiling being her most common victim. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_a6543322 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b0028436 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b0028436 | comment |
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, this is usually what happens to victims of Polnareff's Stand, Silver Chariot, thanks to its high speed. He explicitly tells J. Geil he's about to turn him into one right before he gives him a Cruel and Unusual Death. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b0028436 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b0028436 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_b0028436 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b30ae4db | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Game of Thrones: Tormund Giantsbane after the Battle of Castle Black. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_b30ae4db | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b9b796cf | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_b9b796cf | comment |
Fate/stay night seems to love this trope: Archer is seen to have died this way in a flashback.note Although Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works adaptation uses the version found in Fate/EXTRA instead, wherein he was executed by hanging. Then it happens in-game thanks to Gilgamesh, but this time he sticks around for a day after. In the Unlimited Blade Works route, Berserker is on the receiving end of this thanks to Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon. This being Berserker, however, it takes a lot of punishment before he finally goes down. In the Heaven's Feel route Shirou suffers a self-inflicted version after he receives Archer's arm as a transplant. Swords begin erupting from within his body due to its presence, slowly killing him while replacing any body parts too damaged to continue functioning with metal blades. In the final fight with Kirei, he only has to protect his head because a blow anywhere else on his body will shred the enemy's fist. In the fighting games based on the visual novel, this is the common fate of anyone caught in the final Storm of Blades attack of Archer's Unlimited Blade Works. |
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1.0 | |
| Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_b9b796cf | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba666650 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba666650 | comment |
In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can be turned into one by The Fear. If you use the medical screen to heal your wounds except for pulling out the arrows, Snake will spend the entire game with arrows sticking out of his body. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba666650 | featureApplicability |
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| Human Pincushion / int_ba666650 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_ba666650 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af8f | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af8f | comment |
In Saw II, Xavier's test in the Nerve Gas House involves him entering a pit of used needles to retrieve the key needed to get an antidote out of a safe. Xavier refuses to do the task himself and instead throws Amanda into the pit. As painful and gruesome as the pit is, Amanda completes the task, only for Xavier to accidentally drop the key down a hole when she gives it to him. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Saw II | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_ba99af8f | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af9c | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af9c | comment |
Saw IV has Rex, a Domestic Abuser, and his wife Morgan strapped back to back in a column, with both having spikes impaling their bodies as punishment for Rex's abuse and Morgan becoming complicit in allowing him to abuse their young daughter as well. While the spikes went through Rex's major arteries, they didn't penetrate Morgan's, and she has the task of pulling out the spikes which will kill him, but allow her to escape and seek help for her and their daughter. While Morgan pulled out most of the spikes, she lost consciousness at some point before Rigg comes to the scene and pulls the last spike from her, ultimately leading to Morgan's survival. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_ba99af9c | featureApplicability |
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| Saw IV | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_ba99af9c | |
| Human Pincushion / int_bff01809 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_bff01809 | comment |
In Warhammer this tends to happen to Goblin Fanatics, extremely dangerous and totally crazy goblins with ludicrously large Epic Flails. The reason for this is that they cannot be attacked in close combat, and most units are not allowed to split their fire between two target units (and each Goblin Fanatic counts as a unit). | |
| Human Pincushion / int_bff01809 | featureApplicability |
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| Human Pincushion / int_bff01809 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_bff01809 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
Team Fortress 2: Arrows shot into a ragdoll will persist until they die and their bodies fade, so Heavy Weapons Guys in particular will be seen having multiple arrows protruding from their bodies (and shooting non-fatal arrows thusly earns a Huntsman-wielding Sniper an achievement). | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Human Pincushion / int_c0d295c4 | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c19c6efa | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c19c6efa | comment |
Arrows in Minecraft will persist in your character for a whole minute after taking each shot. Fighting with a group of skeletons, pillagers, or ranged piglins will often leave you looking like a pincushion. Similarly, being stung by a swarm of bees will result in the bees' stingers protruding out of you in much the same way. Given how honeybee stings work in real life, ending up like this is probably a more realistic - and survivable - outcome than having a double-digit number of arrows deep inside your flesh. (Especially if we ignore the fact that the stingers, and the bees they come from, are a bit larger than your usual garden variety.) Averted with tridents. Which makes sense for normal tridents thrown by the player, since they bounce back out of the target and can be used again immediately. Less so for drowned zombies, since unlike you, they can lob an infinite number of them at their unsuspecting victim. |
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Human Pincushion / int_c19c6efa | |
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Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c75ae76b | comment |
Chester Gould was fond of this in Dick Tracy: Tracy chases crook Gargles inside a warehouse for glass windows. Trying to escape, Gargles knocks over a cart of glass before falling down a staircase. The glass shards follow him down to stab and cut Gargles to shreds. Tracy is fighting Empty Williams inside a kids' tree house. The fight causes the whole tree to collapse with Empty pierced several times by branches. TV Wiggles tries to shoot Tracy inside a factory. He ends up knocking over a huge container of sheet metal which lands on him and literally staples Wiggles to the floor. |
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Human Pincushion / int_c75ae76b | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c774f793 | type |
Human Pincushion | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c774f793 | comment |
In Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, this can easily happen to Stranger in if he gets hit with enough shots and doesn't shake them off. | |
| Human Pincushion / int_c774f793 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Hägar the Horrible: Hagar returns home looking like this sometimes (usually axes, spears, and arrows), showing that his last pillaging foray wasn't as successful as he'd hoped. | |
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CSI had an episode with a victim where the cause of death was "gunshot wounds to everything". | |
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Kamen Rider Outsiders: Tenjuro Banno gets subjected into a gruesome skewering courtesy of Kamen Rider Zein, who invokes Xross Saber's Finishing Move via Haouken Xross Saber, Zein launches the 10 Seikens at Banno like guided missiles as he helplessly tries to escape with his life, only to be impaled from top to bottom, destroying his robotic body as a result. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: The Almost Dead Guy who rides hundreds of miles to deliver news of One Eye's army... while pierced in the back by about a dozen arrows. | |
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Brütal Legend: The Tainted Coil's Punishing Party unit consists of several Dominatrices and the Slave. The Slave is a big demon with a truckload of arrows, swords, and other pointy objects stuck in his body. Punishing Party's basic attack is tearing out a projectile from the Slave's flesh and hurling it at the enemies. Fittingly, the Slave is called "Pin Boy" by the Dominatrices. | |
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The Rise of Phoenixes: The Crown Prince gets shot with dozens of arrows after his failed rebellion. | |
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Kingdom (2019): Mu-yeong is impaled and shot with several arrows by Lord Cho Hak-ju's men midway through the second season. He lives just long enough to tell Prince Chang about the Queen's gathering of pregnant women, including his wife. | |
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In Nioh 2, the youkai form of Shibata Katsuie has a massive number of swords and spears embedded in his back. Nothing that actually prevents him from being a Lightning Bruiser. | |
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Interesting variant in Eastern Exorcist; the skeleton archer enemies (and their boss equivalent, the Skeleton Yaksha) have dozens and dozens of arrows embedded on their bodies, and they'll pull those arrows out and load them into bows for firing at you. The Skeleton Yaksha notably pulls three to six arrows from it's torso before firing. | |
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From League of Legends: Kalista, the Spear of Vengeance, is a ghostly legionnaire who was killed in an act of betrayal by one of her comrades, and now acts as an arbiter of vengeance on traitors throughout the rest of Runeterra. Her visual and conceptual designs appear to have a sense of cosmic humor: she manifests with the spears that killed her still stuck in her body, and she uses the same spears to inflict the same fate on her victims. Volibear, the Relentless Storm, is a bear-shaped demigod of the storms, a sort of an avatar representing fury and primal destruction. His violent personality has given him the title of being a War God, and one of his mythological incarnations depicts him as "The Thousand-Pierced Bear", an almost eldritch monstrosity with endless swords, spears, and other sharp weapons jammed into his back. |
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In the Sailor Moon anime, this is how Nephrite dies. At least four huge pointy roots go through his torso, and when Naru tries to pull one out, she's hit with lightning. | |
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Dungeon Siege: Particularly visible throughout the series and downright ridiculous in "winter" areas, where opponents tend to use large ice shards instead of arrows. | |
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Return of the Living Dead 3: Julie Walker drives spikes into her own body after becoming a zombie, attempting to numb her bestial impulses with pain. By the end of the movie, she's got rail spikes through her arms, along with nails and glass shards sticking out of her head. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel - vampires die from a stake to the heart, but other methods of impalement don't kill them. Spike got quite a few arrows stuck in him while Buffy was fighting a vengeful Native American spirit. He later took the opportunity to run Angel through with a sword to get to a monster. | |
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Human Pincushion | |
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In The Ballad of the White Horse Eldred takes seven spears to the torso before he finally goes down, and that's only because the seventh spear was enchanted. | |
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Sienkiewicz Trilogy: Both in the book and in the movie, Longinus dies from being shot with multiple arrows after the enemy corner him but dare not approach within the range of his sword. | |
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Looking for Group: One scene has Richard in a torture chamber with various sharp objects stuck through his body, telling the torturer there's some room near his thigh. Justified in that Richard is a supremely overpowered undead warlock, for who this is a pleasant experience. | |
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The Haunted in The Evil Within are invariably bristling with glass shards, arrows, knives, and other stabbing implements, or full of holes from having been skewered repeatedly. | |
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The cause of Asch's death/defeat (the ending waffled a little bit) in Tales of the Abyss. Buying time for the rest of the party he held off a force of replica knights as long as he could, eventually getting impaled with three swords. To cement his badassery though, he managed to pull one of them out of his torso and use it to kill a few knights before finally going down. | |
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The vampires' preferred method of execution in The Saga of Darren Shan is to tie the person into a cage and drop them onto a pit of stakes over and over again until they die. This does happen to a major character. He gets resurrected and remembers it in excruciating detail. | |
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My Country: The New Age: Hwi dies after being shot repeatedly by Bang-won's archers. | |
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Saw: In Saw II, Xavier's test in the Nerve Gas House involves him entering a pit of used needles to retrieve the key needed to get an antidote out of a safe. Xavier refuses to do the task himself and instead throws Amanda into the pit. As painful and gruesome as the pit is, Amanda completes the task, only for Xavier to accidentally drop the key down a hole when she gives it to him. Saw IV has Rex, a Domestic Abuser, and his wife Morgan strapped back to back in a column, with both having spikes impaling their bodies as punishment for Rex's abuse and Morgan becoming complicit in allowing him to abuse their young daughter as well. While the spikes went through Rex's major arteries, they didn't penetrate Morgan's, and she has the task of pulling out the spikes which will kill him, but allow her to escape and seek help for her and their daughter. While Morgan pulled out most of the spikes, she lost consciousness at some point before Rigg comes to the scene and pulls the last spike from her, ultimately leading to Morgan's survival. |
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